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‘Putin Involved in Drug Smuggling Ring’, Says Ex-KGB Officer
NewsWeek ^ | March 13, 2015 | BY DAMIEN SHARKOV

Posted on 03/14/2015 3:04:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his long-time ally Victor Ivanov, who is currently head of Russia’s narcotics agency, have been implicated in helping run a drug smuggling and money laundering ring in St Petersburg in the 1990s. The allegations were made by ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets who spoke at the inquiry into the death Alexander Litvinenko yesterday.

Shvets testified in front of Ben Emmerson QC, expanding on a report he had compiled with fellow ex-Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a few months prior to the latter’s death from polonium poisoning.

According to Shvets’ sources, which include the late Litvinenko, an anonymous party “sufficiently close to Ivanov to have been his former assistant”, as well as the Ukrainian security services, “Mr Putin was directly involved in a company that was laundering drugs from Colombia” [sic].

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The inquiry is currently investigating the possibility that Litvinenko’s murder was orchestrated by the FSB, something that Shvets says could not have been done without the knowledge and consent of “the top authority in Russia, which is Vladimir Putin”.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: alexanderlitvinenko; benemmersonqc; fsb; ivanov; litvinenko; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; shvets; victorivanov; vladimirputin; vladtheimploder; yurishvets
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1 posted on 03/14/2015 3:04:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

He’s amoral and power crazy, armed with nuclear weapons, unrestrained by law, so it wouldn’t be surprising.


2 posted on 03/14/2015 3:10:10 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Who, Obama or Putin?


3 posted on 03/14/2015 3:16:01 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: elhombrelibre
He’s amoral and power crazy, armed with nuclear weapons, unrestrained by law

......But enough about Obama.

4 posted on 03/14/2015 3:25:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Just imagine if our Dear Leader’s background was scrutinized with a fraction of the resources that are currently being dedicated to smearing Putin - that wife-beating, money-stealing drug dealer.


5 posted on 03/14/2015 3:27:04 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Both. The possibility is not mutually exclusive, and if you can at least think of Putin as as bad as Obama it will be progress since so many people seem to think Putin is some type of swell Christian paladin.


6 posted on 03/14/2015 3:43:47 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: Junk Silver

Yeah, we should stop picking on Putin. We can only do one thing at a time, no walking and chewing gum.


7 posted on 03/14/2015 3:44:38 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

I would rather drink beer with Putin.


8 posted on 03/14/2015 3:51:31 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I wouldn’t drink with either. You may like to drink with a murderer. I don’t.


9 posted on 03/14/2015 3:55:34 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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10 posted on 03/14/2015 3:58:48 AM PDT by Ken H (DILLIGAF)
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11 posted on 03/14/2015 3:59:46 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: elhombrelibre; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks Jim Robinson.

12 posted on 03/14/2015 4:14:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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I would rather drink beer with Putin.

And within the day you'll feel really sick an your hair will fall out from all the Polonium 210 he snuck into your beer.

13 posted on 03/14/2015 4:21:25 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Maybe this was what Obama was talking about when he said he’d have more “flexibility” after the election.


14 posted on 03/14/2015 5:05:18 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Lazamataz

Spot on.


15 posted on 03/14/2015 7:06:09 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I’d rather look at pictures of Miss Ukraine and feel sorry that their country has been attacked. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7uoXQiY9C8/U8G59OQ2z1I/AAAAAAAASM8/I6mxL2HEev4/s640/Anna+Zayachkivska+Miss+Ukraine+World+2013+-00.jpg


16 posted on 03/14/2015 8:30:37 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Indeed makes one wonder where did most of Obama’s money came from for his run for office?.


17 posted on 03/14/2015 8:55:37 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Putin would be a hoot at a BBQ.. Shirts off,hangin out on the patio,smokin cigars,shootin AK,s.


18 posted on 03/14/2015 9:19:07 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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I can’t believe how little coverage and discussion this matter is getting... biggest geo-political story in 25 years and.. just silence....


19 posted on 03/14/2015 9:26:36 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: cornfedcowboy

20 posted on 03/14/2015 9:35:41 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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